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Celebrating a girl I knew in high school. What might have happened if we had been free to be honest about our all too brief romance?

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ooh la la, Layla

you were named after a song
and so you sang your world to me
and it challenged the sweetest saddest note in my heart
the sweetest ache in my memory
this formless ache in my memory

he called you girlfriend
but he was never very friendly
you talked and cried about him in-between kisses
and we were never sorry

afternoons were all we had,
tiny windows while your mother was gone
we turned her couch into an inferno
flame-deep in its intentions,
urging us on
turning us on

i still love making out in jeans
maybe thanks to you and all your teenage cotton
and i can still feel the shapes that i traced on your skin
under your sweater
i've never forgotten

you were named after a song
and so you sang your world to me
and it challenged the sweetest saddest note in my heart
the sweetest ache in my memory

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from Everything's a Phoenix, released May 20, 2011
Jonathan Brinkley: Words and Music, Vocal, Guitar

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Jonathan Brinkley Portland, Oregon

Portland-based artist Jonathan Brinkley travels a lot to share his music around the world. When not traveling, he's lived and worked on organic farms. The themes of growth, death, motion, and regeneration heard in his songs are influenced by both stillness and wandering. An undaunted dedication to truth-telling earns him a following of fans who connect to his music on a very personal level. ... more

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